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Advanced Investments

Deepen your understanding of the financial markets with this course that teaches you to manage risk, seize opportunities, and balance active and passive strategies.

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When it comes to wealth, more is better. But how important is liquidity to you? How important is risk? How important is being able to leave a legacy to members of your family or to causes you hold dear? As preparation for the course, consider these and other personal goals.

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r********g

January 6, 2019

I'm providing a review with about half of the course completed so perhaps my opinion will change. Anyway, this is an academic-type course.. Might be useful for someone who wants to see the mechanics of investing but not very practical for the individual investor. In other words, if you want to learn what makes the car run, this is the course for you. If you want to learn how to drive the car, not too useful.

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c********m

April 26, 2018

Indepth analytical mathmatical approach to investing. Really helps to understand the factors that go into investing. So many formulas that were hard to follow, even though I took a lot of higher math. If you are not a math thinker, this will be difficult. I ended up thinking, how many investment brokers really use these methods (probably not many) and what factors and tables are already figured out for you if you knew where to look or how to use them. I would have liked more examples on evaluating a security using data that is already available, and where to find it.

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i********m

January 12, 2018

Great presentation of this topic by professor Slezak. I'm a practical, active trader, who doesn't subscribe to the efficient market hypothesis, and didn't expect to align with many of the concepts presented here. Still, I wanted to gain an understanding about how portfolio management is formally taught. To my pleasant surprise, there were many gold nuggets for me in this course. Do recommend a genuine interest, some finance background, and comfort with math, as a prerequisite. I had all three, and it still took a good bit of work to get thru. That said, it was well worth it for the understanding that I got. On the humor. Well, this is not SNL material. I give Slezak credit just for trying.